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Sunny Shao
Education
PhD. Candidate, Political Science
University of California
Riverside, CA
current - 2016
M.S., Public Policy
Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA
2016 - 2013
Selected Positions
Researcher & Center Associate
Center for Social Innovation (UCR)
Riverside, CA
current - 2018
- Independently collect, analyze and visualize survey data for research reports and public-sector clients
- Supervise and mentor undergraduate students on data science research
- Provided technical support for the Census 2020 Complete Count Committee in the Inland Empire Region of CA
Researcher
AAPI Data
Riverside, CA
current - 2017
- Work and collaborate with local, state, and national organizations on over 130 data consulting projects
- Program Qualtrics experimental surveys with name matching algorithm to determine ethnicity from voter files
- Analyze, visualize survey data and build interactive data tools in ShinyApps using R
Summer Data Consulting Fellow
Education Pioneer
Los Angeles, CA
2015 - 2016
- Worked closely with charter network coordinators, school principals, teachers on their needs and constraints for life experience programs
- Created weighted sampling surveys to evaluate programs of Camino Nuevo charter school network
- Designed protocols and methodology for future program evaluations
Data Analyst Intern
SmartAnalyst
Gurgaon, India
2012
- Interviewed thoracic oncologists in Japan and China for pharmaceutical clients, who are on phase II trials of non-small cell lung cancer drugs
- Translated three-way phone meetings between client, SmartAnalyst and Chinese thoracic oncologists
- Crowdsourced a list of throracic oncologists through medical journals
Selected Projects
Asian American Voter Survey
AAPI Data, APIAVote & AAAJC
N/A
2020 - 2018
Inland Empire Non-profit/Civic Engagement Survey
Center for Social Innovation, UC Riverside
N/A
2020 - 2019